HerStrength.OurPower.

Empowering youth. Ending exploitation.

Our fervent conviction is that no child should be bought or sold. At My Life My Choice, it is our daily fight. Our holistic, battle-tested approach is grounded in survivor experiences of those who have lived the ugly realities of exploitation and come back fierce, wise, and strong. We serve as a model for communities across the country set on changing not only lives, but the structural inequities that give rise to trafficking and sexual exploitation. We understand that violence to one girl is a threat to us all. Her story is our story; her strength, her resolve, and ultimately her resilience fuels a better future for us all.

The young people served by My Life My Choice enter the sex trade at an average age of 14. This doesn’t just happen in someone else’s neighborhood. It happens in our neighborhood. In every neighborhood. Our work – our urgent strategic endeavor – is to end this violence once and for alll.

Dear Johns — An Open Letter to Sex Buyers

The fight goes on. Stand up with us.

Since 2002, we’ve successfully mentored and supported more than 500 survivors who, through grit and resolve, found a path forward and discovered the power of their own voice. Her story is important. It’s our story, too.

Our Voice

You don’t have to take a person’s passport to enslave her. It is not necessary to lure them from China and hide them in massage parlors they can’t leave. It is possible to trap them in plain sight, where most of us don’t see their plight or powerlessness.

Patriots owner Robert Kraft was recently charged with allegedly buying sex. But we know that the real story here is not about one man. The real story is all of you who think it is acceptable to buy someone. Here is what we want you, the buyers, to know.

The heart-wrenching details emerging about the lives of exploited women may have shocked members of Patriots Nation, but, sadly, were not shocking to us at My Life My Choice who deal with the realities of commercial sexual exploitation every day.

While the partial government shutdown has ended, it’s effects may be long-lasting for the most vulnerable in our communities. The safety net so many relied upon was stripped away creating a feeling of desperation and re-traumatization of going without.

By the age of 16, Cyntoia Brown had experienced multiple rapes, physical and mental abuse, run away from home, and was being sold for sex. On August 6, 2004, her life would change forever when she was sold to a 43-year-old perpetrator named Johnny Allen.

The recent documentary, “Survivor R. Kelly”, tells the stories of the women and children who were abused and psychologically imprisoned by R. Kelly. He used his fame to approach them in schools and malls and make them feel special and cared for.